The 18-month lifespan: How to beat PM burnout
Amid rising legislative complexity and tribunal workloads, one principal explains the daily practices that keep her property management team well beyond the industry norm.
Regional Victorian house values soar as inner-Melbourne drops and REIV demands auction rule pause
Towns like Bright, Mildura and Bendigo posted growth of 90 to 146 per cent over ten years, far outpacing the 16 per cent decline recorded in City of Melbourne apartments.
The wisdom of Fiona Blayney – 30 lessons from the woman who banned the word busy
She started on a Woolworths checkout, changing out of her school uniform on the bus, and has been…
Japanese agency sells homes for 1 Yen, banks trust instead
One Tokyo agency has built a business model around giving away unwanted regional properties for less than the…
Building success through reputation in Leongatha
Matt Redmond has built a thriving real estate business in Leongatha without making a single cold call.
Renting for life is now the plan, not the fallback, for many tenants
Modelling cited in the report suggests almost half of younger Australian households will still be renting privately past age 50 by 2040, reshaping how landlords should think about tenant retention.
Nick Brown: A break lease isn’t a crisis – it’s a negotiation
Tenants ending a lease early is part of the job – Nick Brown on why the ‘break lease’ conversation is really just a negotiation, haunted houses included.
Brock Fisher: Fix the holes in your revenue bucket before you try to grow it
Most agencies are missing hundreds of dollars a month in fees they never collect. From file audits to reinstating waived fees, here's where property management revenue leaks – and six ways to stop it.
Pancho Mehrotra: What Ted Lasso understands about leading people
Ted Lasso never talked about winning – he talked about effort. That choice of language is the whole reason his team followed him.
Happy people do more, and they love doing it
Walk into a property management business that's firing and you can feel it before anyone speaks. The energy is up. People are moving. The phone…
The thought we all have, but dare not say out loud
Top of the Props 2026 finalists take aim at property industry’s biggest pressure points
The lease mistakes costing you repeat commercial clients
Harcourts' head of commercial argues the real test of a lease comes years later, and sets out five common mistakes agents should steer clients away…
Freedom is the hardest thing young agents have to manage
After nearly 20 years in real estate, I have seen our industry evolve in more ways than I could count.…
What really separates top agents in today’s market
Strip away the noise: why mastering communication, marketing, and negotiation beats every market shortcut
The behaviour you walk past is the behaviour you accept
Hannah Gill argues real estate culture is shaped less by strategy statements and more by…
How good agents learn from feedback without being ruled by it
Four practices for taking feedback seriously without taking it personally.
The house is listening – and it heard your vendor report
More than half of sellers in a new US survey kept the cameras rolling during…
Shorts
Elite Agent launches Saved Articles, free for every reader
Have you ever found a headline interesting at a moment when you didn’t have time…
Proptech’s real problem isn’t the software, it’s the rollout
The biggest challenges facing Australia and New Zealand’s proptech sector are no longer technical. They…
The proptech push to finally unify your real estate tech stack
The modern real estate office has become a complex web of disconnected systems. What was…
Which Real Estate Jobs Deserve Claude Fable 5’s $1,000-an-Hour Brain
I’ve spent the past few days testing Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s new top-of-the-range model, and…
House buying named a high-risk moment for scams
Major purchases and life transitions, including buying or selling a house, are among the high-pressure…
How to Become the Answer AI Gives When Sellers Ask “Who’s the Best Agent?”
How AI-Powered DISC Profiling Can Win You More Listings
Stop Selling to Everyone: How AI Buyer Personas Can Transform Your Next Listing Presentation
The AI Edit Ep. 11: Your vendor isn’t online – here’s how AI can still help
Teach ChatGPT to Write Like You – Not a Robot
Watch ChatGPT Draft a Real Estate CMA all on its own
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